Slate is not impartial? I think Slate has a far better record of reporting facts than your sources, which I can only assume includes Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and some dude wearing a tin foil hat, sleeping in a Mylanta cardboard box and mumbling about the trilateral commission. You consistently cite the most ridiculous things then hide behind the notion of a liberal-media cabal hiding the truth. Dude, grow up the guy never said anything about Sharia law.

Judeo-Christian is our heritage, as Christ was a Jew. So we honor the Old Testament part of our history with Judeo; the New Testament part with Christian. Isn’t that neat?

Of course, the Muslim bloggers have caught onto this and now speak of America’s “Judeo-Christian-Muslim” heritage. Obama gives us this so called Muslim heritage. Well, Obama and Abraham Lincoln according to the latest propaganda arm of our government, “Islamic Hollywood.”

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=prnw.20090420.CL01596&show_article=1

AUSTIN — The Texas Legislature: in session 92 days as of Wednesday. The lawmakers’ per diem pay: $2.1 million so far.

The number of bills to reach the governor’s desk: One.

Meanwhile, major bills on windstorm insurance, transportation, reform of the state schools for the mentally challenged and modernizing the state’s unemployment system are slogging through the halls of the state Capitol.

“I have never seen a slower pace. I have seen a few sessions in my day, but I have never seen one this slow,” said state Rep. Al Edwards D-Houston, who is in his 15th legislative session.

The only bill to reach Gov. Rick Perry is one to allow CenterPoint Energy and Entergy to recover the cost of Hurricane Ike cleanup and repairs through a rate increase at the Public Utility Commission.

CenterPoint estimates it will be adding $2 to $2.50 a month to the average customer’s bill, while Entergy is predicting an extra charge of about $5.25 a month.

Without a doubt, the session has been one of the slowest paced in recent memory. By this point in 2007, there were nine bills on the governor’s desk; in 2005 there were three.

But numbers alone don’t tell the story of the 81st Legislature.

Other than the state budget — which has passed the Senate and will be debated in the House on Friday and Saturday — very little major legislation has been moved from either the House or Senate.

The actual number of bills passed by the Senate was up — from 211 in 2007 to 340 as of Monday — only because the Senate has had two full calendars of uncontested legislation, meaning bills that do not require debate.

There had been 103 bills to move out of the House by Tuesday.

The opening-day Senate battle over voter identification laws dampened the collegial atmosphere there, some say.

And the fight over replacing House Speaker Tom Craddick with Speaker Joe Straus delayed the organization of committees by weeks.

Perry on Feb. 3 listed six topics as emergency legislation, including the CenterPoint/Entergy bill.

His emergency item on paying for state government losses from the hurricane will be heard for the first time on the House floor today, but windstorm insurance reform is stuck in House and Senate committees.

“It’s not what happens at the middle of the session,” said Perry spokesman Mark Miner. “People aren’t concerned about the process, they’re concerned about the outcome.”

Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-Houston, who passed the electric recovery bill along with Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, said she is happy with the legislative session’s more deliberate pace.

“I’m glad the pace has slowed down. At least we are able to look at what we are doing and do a better job at reading the bills and discussing them in committee,” Thompson said.

Slow as it is, this legislative session has had the most bills ever introduced: 7,494. Two years ago, there were 6,359 introduced.

“We had a record number of bills introduced. That’s the bad news,” said state Rep. Harvey Hilderbran, R-Kerrville. “The good news is that probably a record number of them will fail.”

And roofus, Harold Koh believes no such thing:

http://www.slate.com/id/2215142/

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